Bill Gates: Windows and Windows Phone will be combined into one platform
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In a recent interview posted by Microsoft (MSFT), company co-founder Bill Gates had much praise to offer Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablet. Gates called the new slate an ”unbelievably great product” and said it is far more than just a tablet. In a less widely reported portion of the interview, however, the former...
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Twenty-one years ago, Microsoft debuted the first Surface tablet, complete with handwriting recognition and gestures. It wasn't called the Surface then. In fact, the prototype tablet that a young, charming Bill Gates showed off was an unnamed prototype from NCR running Windows 3.1. In a video lost among the millions on...
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Chal Davidson, the former lead engineer at TerraPower, the nuclear reactor startup backed by Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has emerged at the helm of a new startup company by the name of SuperCritical Technologies. According to a description on Davidson’s LinkedIn page, SuperCritical is setting out to...
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Rapping Steve Jobs back to diss rivals in iPad Mini parody
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Bill Gates explains why the Surface is 'unbelievably great' [video]
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It’s not exactly surprising, but Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates is a big fan of his company’s first tablet. During an in-house interview posted on Monday, Gates said that the Surface is an “unbelievably great product” that delivers “an even better tablet… that also has what you’d expect in a...
Bill Gates has a Microsoft Surface, says it's 'unbelievably great'
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Bill Gates was the main person behind Microsoft’s longtime strategy of selling Windows to a variety of computer makers, and refraining from making computers itself. But the Microsoft chairman is sounding fully on board with the company’s new Surface tablet computer. In an interview with Microsoft’s Steve Clayton, made...
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